Daniel Camargo Barbosa

Daniel Camargo Barbosa (born January 22, 1930 , † November 13, 1994 ) was a Colombian serial killer who is said to have raped and murdered up to 150 girls in the 1970s and 1980s , but only 72 murders could be proven.

Life

Barbosa's mother died when he was only a year old, and he lived with his authoritarian and emotionally distant father. He married a younger, but sterile woman, whose psychological stability deteriorated more and more: she treated Daniel like a daughter, dressed him like a girl and made him a mockery among his peers. Despite performing well in school, his family's precarious financial situation forced him to drop out and look for work.

In 1960, Camargo married Alcira Castillo in an arranged marriage that had two children. But soon he was in a relationship with another woman, for whose virginity he developed a morbid obsession , which increased to a delusional hatred of virgins.

He made an arrangement with his wife that if she helped him get young girls to have sex with her, he would keep the relationship going. Over the next few years, they lured several girls into their apartment and drugged them so that Barbosa could rape them.

On April 10, 1964, after a girl reported him, Barbosa was sentenced to a total of eight years in prison for sexual assault; he remained in custody until 1972.

Beginning of the series of murders

In 1973 he started working as a street vendor in Barranquilla. He then kidnapped a 9-year-old girl whom he raped and murdered to prevent re-indictment.

On May 3, 1974, he was convicted of this act and sentenced to 30 years in prison on the island of Gorgona , from which he escaped in November 1984 in a makeshift boat. Since a search was unsuccessful, it was assumed that he had drowned.

In fact, he survived and traveled to Quito , the capital of Ecuador, from where he moved on to Guayaquil . He made a living selling pens and slept on the street. Shortly after his arrival, young girls from the nearby town of Quevedo began disappearing.

He murdered in Quevedo and the surrounding area from 1984 to 1986, where at least 54 rapes and murders could be proven. However, the police were initially convinced that the murders were the work of a local gang, and the possibility that a single person could commit so many murders was not considered.

Barbosa selected young lower-class girls as victims who were looking for work. He pretended to be a stranger trying to find the way to deliver a large sum of cash and promised the girls a share if they escorted him to his supposed destination. In fact, without causing a stir, he went with his victims into the woods, where he injured and raped them, then murdered them and left their corpses behind.

Daniel Camargo Barbosa was finally found on February 26, 1986 by two police officers in Quito who found bloody clothing in a suitcase he had been carrying, which is why they took him into custody. He initially gave a false name, but was later identified by one of his victims.

Judgment and death

He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 1989, the maximum sentence in Ecuador, and transferred to Garcia Moreno de Quito prison, where he was murdered in 1994 by Luis Masache Narvaez, the cousin of one of his victims.

literature

• Brian Lane, Wilfred Gregg: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. 2nd edition. Berkley Books, New York NY 1995, ISBN 0-425-15213-8 .
• Jose Manuel Ferro Veiga: Predadores. Criminalidad Sexual. CreateSpace Independent Publishing, North Charleston SC 2014, ISBN 978-1-4974-1517-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography at murderpedia.org (accessed June 1, 2015)
2. ↑ Alun Palmer: World's worst serial killers: Is Brazilian security guard to join list of most prolific mass murderers? In: Daily Mirror . October 18, 2014, accessed on August 17, 2012 .